Balcones National Wildlife Refuge
By Keith Hamilton, Biological Technician on Riverside’s U.S Fish and Wildlife Contract Over a two-week period in late March, I traveled to the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) to train two Student Conservation Association (SCA) personnel on how to monitor for monarch butterflies/eggs/larva, nectar plants, milkweeds, and Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA). The NWR […]
Employee Spotlight: Carroll Hood
Carroll Hood is a Senior System Architect working both business development and program execution activities for Riverside in the DC area. He has been working within the environmental data and information management domain for over 30 years. He studied oceanography and remote sensing in college (but, the world was flat back then, so the equations […]
Riverside attends 97th American Meteorological Society (AMS) 2017 Annual Meeting
AMS 2017 in Seattle was a very energetic event with record-setting attendance. Most of the new attendees seemed to be students or young professionals, which added to the overall feeling of excitement at the sessions and in the exhibit hall. This is a robust and comprehensive scientific seminar. At any point in time, one can choose from probably 20-30 technical sessions being conducted in parallel. The depth and breadth of topics is staggering, offering an excellent learning opportunity.
Riverside to offer drone services
The use of unmanned systems (a.k.a. drone, UAS, UAV) has increased rapidly over the past few years. This growth has increased even more over the past couple of months as the FAA has relaxed requirements and regulations for commercial drone operation in August of 2016.
AMS Riverside Schedule 2017
Presentations and schedule for the 2017 American Meterorolgical Society.
RTI International acquires Water Resource Engineering division of Riverside Technology.
Riverside Technology, inc. has reached a merger agreement with RTI International, wherein RTI has acquired the Fort Collins based consulting division of Riverside. This division provides water resources management and engineering services to clients worldwide. The non-consultation portion of Riverside will continue to be based in Fort Collins, CO and serve its Federal customers including NOAA, USGS, US Fish and Wildlife, USDA, and others with scientific support services.
Riverside employees present at AGU Fall Meeting
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has met every fall for the last 49 years for attendees to hear about the latest discoveries, trends, and challenges in Earth and space science; present research; and network with colleagues. This year, two Riverside employees will be on hand at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco to present […]
Employee Focus: Joe Hackel
Joe Hackel has achieved the kind of work-life balance to which many of us aspire. He’s a well-respected and accomplished engineer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), and he gets to accomplish his daily tasks from the comfort of his home in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. […]
Riverside boasts two certified Proposal Management Professionals
Two members of Riverside’s Business Development Operations Team, Marti Bruening and Angi Connolly, recently received their Foundation-level Certification from the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP). After more than a year of study, application of principles along the way, and then acing their exams, Marti and Angi built on their already combined 13+ years as […]
Riverside supports GOES-R launch
Approximately a dozen Riverside employees supported the launch of the first of four GOES-R satellites, which launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday, November 19. Riverside supports the GOES-R satellite, the most advanced weather satellite ever built, with the ground systems to capture the high-volume data stream GOES-R will provide as […]
